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Re: Meta Censoring '#Democrat' on Instagram

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Post by mandmandam »

addandsubtract wrote: post #87
ndsipa_pomu wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I saw the BBC's article "Elon Musk's gesture at Trump rally draws scrutiny" - way to downplay a Nazi salute, BBC. Musk has been promoting extreme right-wing opinions, conspiracies and outright lies for quite a while now and he's obviously seeing the Trump presidency as a key success in his plot for world domination, so he no longer needs to hide his fascism/racism etc. Why other organisations are seeking to downplay…

German media is doing the same, posing it as a question or posing it as "looks like" and it's baffling. Then there's also the Anti-Defamation League coming forward protecting Musk and saying it wasn't a nazi salut. I don't even know how anyone, much less an organization meant to protect jewish interests, can come to that conclusion.

> I don't even know how anyone, much less an organization meant to protect jewish interests, can come to that conclusion.

Once you start differentiating between Zionist interests and Jewish interests, the last 80 years (and especially the last 15 months) makes a lot more sense.

Re: Meta Censoring '#Democrat' on Instagram

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Post by ndsipa_pomu »

rofo1 wrote: post #72
ndsipa_pomu wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You believe Elon Musk is somehow showing support for the National-Socialist party of the German working class? That's a bizarre comparison. Are you deliberately trying to build a straw-man and associate a known extreme right-wing, Nazi salute with socialism? You do realise that the Nazi party were not at all socialist - they called themselves that to trick and lie to the Germans.

I am not building anything. Perhaps you need to study history and see what happened. There is no distinction of evil between the communists in USSR and NAZI Germany. They were both clear evil. I thank God they are both history now and we should not forget it, ever.

What? One moment, you're defending Musk's Nazi salute and the next you're stating that "we should not forget"?

Not forgetting implies that we must NEVER tolerate Nazi sympathisers and Nazi ideology. Musk has been promoting Nazi/extreme right-wing ideologies for quite a while now and his latest stunt is to perform a Nazi salute which insults the memories of everyone that fought against the Nazis in WWII.

What specific part of history are you alluding to? I'm reasonably knowledgable but not an expert in European history and I certainly found it very frightening when I visited the Holocaust Museum in Berlin and saw that the exact same methods were being employed by the Republicans/Trump.

Can you be more specific as it seems that you're just trying to obfuscate.

Re: Meta Censoring '#Democrat' on Instagram

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

baq wrote: post #61
nolok wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure if I'm more disappointed in you acting like "rest of the world" means europe only, or by you thinking europe is a unified identical blob. My country of france neither delegated its defense to the US nor its energy to Russia, for exemple.

Actually wanted to highlight France as one country which correctly identified the threat of US going batshit crazy soon after WW2 and positioned accordingly, but didn't want to go into nuance on this particular thread. Now that it's flagged, we can agree in peace.

> France as one country which correctly identified the threat of US going batshit crazy soon after WW2

This was equal part pragmatic foreign policy and a desire by the French elite to hold onto their colonies, an institution strongly opposed by the United States since around WWI.

Re: Meta Censoring '#Democrat' on Instagram

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Post by monsieurgaufre »

pedrogpimenta wrote: post #68
AnonHP wrote: post #64

I understand that this post is flagged because it can start flame wars and “not curious conversations”, but I’m curious about what people here from different parts of the world are seeing for these search terms. If censorship is indeed happening either due to manual flags or “AI” algorithms, people need to know what’s happening and if this is just anecdotal or geography specific or could be spreading to other countri…

I get the same "We've hidden these results" on Instagram in Spain. But #democrats (plural) works and #fucktrump as well (a user here was saying that was censored but #fuckbiden was allowed)

Same in Canada

Re: Meta Censoring '#Democrat' on Instagram

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Post by ffsm8 »

dist-epoch wrote: post #96
ffsm8 wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am against almost all kinds of censorship, the only times I personally believe things should be censored if it's inciting violence/death threats to people. And even then I feel like censorship is probably the wrong way to do it. And from that perspective, these quotes you're currently touting are ripped out of their context, making them sound asinine despite being mostly on point, fundamentally. Twitter, Facebook,…

Your internet provider is also a private company. Do you think it should be free to censor you and close your contract if you visit websites they don't agree with?

While youre touching on a real issue, your phrasing doesn't really convey you've understood the issue you're touching on, honestly.

What you're actually putting forth is wherever large social media platforms should be treated as utilities. (Which ISPs are).

If the legislative decided to categorize it as a utility, then any censorship the company decided to do could potentially infringe on your free speech, yes.

However, this is not the case as of today. If it's deemed as such, it'd definitely have a global effect. Wherever that'd be positive would be an interesting case study.

And I might add: lots of ISPs host DNS servers which do in fact censor / block certain domains from resolving

Re: Meta Censoring '#Democrat' on Instagram

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Post by TrackerFF »

AnonHP wrote: post #64

I understand that this post is flagged because it can start flame wars and “not curious conversations”, but I’m curious about what people here from different parts of the world are seeing for these search terms. If censorship is indeed happening either due to manual flags or “AI” algorithms, people need to know what’s happening and if this is just anecdotal or geography specific or could be spreading to other countri…

Norway

Searched for #dnc #democrat right now, and got relevant results.

Re: Meta Censoring '#Democrat' on Instagram

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Post by [deleted] »

AnonHP wrote: post #64

I understand that this post is flagged because it can start flame wars and “not curious conversations”, but I’m curious about what people here from different parts of the world are seeing for these search terms. If censorship is indeed happening either due to manual flags or “AI” algorithms, people need to know what’s happening and if this is just anecdotal or geography specific or could be spreading to other countri…

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Re: Meta Censoring '#Democrat' on Instagram

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Post by sandos »

SSLy wrote: post #89
AnonHP wrote: post #64

I understand that this post is flagged because it can start flame wars and “not curious conversations”, but I’m curious about what people here from different parts of the world are seeing for these search terms. If censorship is indeed happening either due to manual flags or “AI” algorithms, people need to know what’s happening and if this is just anecdotal or geography specific or could be spreading to other countri…

Poland, www, desktop: #democrat shows me only suggestion of #démocratie and a spinner, #republican works like usual.

Same here in Sweden
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